Lives in the Yiddish
TheatreSHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN
THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"1931-1969

Esther Adler
(Shatsky)

A. was born in Ostrog, White
Russia. At the age of sixteen she was brought over to
London, England, by her sister Leah Schwartz, and
together with her she participated in Yiddish amateur
productions. In 1907 she came to Paris with her family
and there participated, until the First World War, in
Yiddish amateur productions. Due to the fact that the
war, the professional actor was lacking, and due to the
fact that
no one could enter the country, she together with her
sister became associated with the professional Yiddish
theatre, and together with her husband, the actor
Jacob Piekarnik, had acted in the troupes under the
direction of Blumental, Burstein, members troupes, and
with Maurice Schwartz during his guest-starring
appearance in Paris. She also used to participate in the
Yiddish theatre productions in Antwerp, Brussels and
London.

After that her husband was
captured by the Nazis and deported, and she remained
alone in Paris until September 1942. Her daughter, who
had fled Paris a year earlier and lived in the
non-occupied zone in Lyon, Southern France, had arranged
to bring her there, and for her to be sent on her way by a dear
friend, a young Christian woman who was to meet her at
a certain "point" and help her go over to the
"demarcation line", between Shalan and Dijon.
They had met there, entered into the ariber fir-bos,
but after several minutes she was led away? into the tfish of Shalan.
From there she was returned to Paris and then to the
Drancy camp, from where some weeks later she was
deported, to an umbavausen place from where she did
not return.